Neil Melville-Rae takes on the Goodwood Festival of Speed

You can find Neil’s Just Giving page here, and our previous posts about his travails here and here.

Recently, Neil trundled down to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, or – more specifically – to the Festival of Slow; an alternative festival-within-a-festival that serves as a launch party for the Mongol Rally.

As you can see below, he had a grand old time charging around Goodwood’s famous circuit on his penny-farthing. He penny-farthinged a grand total of 34 miles to raise money for the British Heart Foundation, before retiring with a broken wheel bearing (don’t worry; he is fully-equipped with replacements).

Here’s Neil gloriously chugging a bottle of champagne to celebrate coming third in a race at Wallingford.

Neil’s efforts to pilot the first airborne bicycle by violently flapping his arms were valiant, but not entirely successful:

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